There’s a new David Bowie video for “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” off of the upcoming album The Next Day. It features Bowie himself, Tilda Swinton, Saskia De Brauw, Andrej Pejic, and Iselin Steiro, and is directed by Floria Sigismondi. (Might not be entirely safe for work, so be warned!) [via YouTube]

Well, in Silences, or a Woman’s Life, someone told me, there are bits and pieces—I’m not telling a linear story. There is always the aspect of this woman in the hospital who is going to die, and this woman having her memories. For me, these four or five weeks of my mother’s coma, when I was with her, was replacing the silence. My words were replacing her silence. Really, it was like I was her. But I was not her completely because there were so many things I didn’t know, couldn’t tell. She says, “My life is full of holes,” because her life was like this material that fades and disappears.

“As a columnist I write as citizen and maybe have too many opinions” – he has published a whole book of just his football articles – “but writing as a novelist is different. I don’t like the journalistic kind of novel which is now rather fashionable. If a book or film takes a good subject from the everyday press – say domestic murders in Spain, which are a historic disgrace – everyone will applaud, but it is easy applause. Who will say it is bad? People say the novel is a way of imparting knowledge. Well, maybe. But for me it is more a way of imparting recognition of things that you didn’t know you knew. You say ‘yes’. It feels true even though it might be uncomfortable. You find this in Proust, who is one of the cruellest authors in the history of literature. He says terrible things, but in such a way that you know that you have experienced those thoughts too.”

Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts).

It’s been a much better week (though some bad news still came about eventually) and part of the reason was that I did somehow miraculously attend three performances, being 《贾宝玉》, the Chinese adaptation of Antigone, and Toy Factory Productions’ staging of The Crucible.

In this series of videos (I’ll only be linking to the first, but the rest should be easily accessible from there), Derrida speaks about Deleuze in 2004, making it one of his very last public engagements. [via YouTube]